Revista de comunicación de la SEECI by this code of ethics declares its good intentions to commit both authors and reviewers, as well as internally, its editorial team and members of its Scientific and Ethics Committees to this code.

Therefore, this code has to be endorsed by all those involved in the publication of scientific papers in this journal.

Authors:

Because this publication is open access, free in publication and in reading, governed by the Creative Commons Attribution / Non Commercial 4.0 International, the author assigns the copyright and publishing of the journal in accord with this intellectual property system of free public access by signing the text of the letter of originality and assignment of rights available on the web of this publication.

The author or authors agree not to misrepresent authorship, not accepting as authors persons who have not been actively involved in the generation of the article presented.

Declare the article’s title and summary to be governed by truthfulness and rigor, avoid citations ‘done as a favor,’ and declare the exact provenance of the work’s contents (doctoral thesis, research project, teaching experience...)

They are obliged not to commit plagiarism, defined as the appropriation of texts by other authors without their consent and without citing their source, even if the permission has been expressed by these third-party authors. They also agree not to include in the submitted texts other texts already created by themselves, avoiding more than 15% of coincidence between a previous text and the one submitted. There are computer programs that with a low error rate weigh the percentage of matches of comparative texts that apply to the works submitted to this journal. The editors use in each article two of them: www.crossref.org/crosscheck/index.html, www.grammarly.com,  www.copyscape.com/online-plagiarism/, www.plagium.com, y www.plagiarisma.net; and whenever a level of coincidence greater than 20% is detected in any of them, the text will be passed through two more. If the level of coincidence persists, the journal's Ethics Committee will act to elucidate the case.

The proposed article must be original and not be submitted simultaneously to another publication or have been published previously in any medium. Reformulations of previous research lines and updates of published past work in order to complete the investigation are acceptable. Also appropriate is previously unpublished work properly updated from presentations at scientific congresses or only available in conference proceedings, specifying the origin of the material to the evaluating Editorial Board of our journal.

The author or authors are exclusively responsible for the statements made in their article to avoid any conflict of interest between the Revista de comunicación de la SEECI and third parties or institutions.

As for the materials used in the article, the authors agree to request the necessary permissions for the reproduction of texts, illustrations, video, audio, and other documentary sources whose publication requires prior authorization in order not to violate the legally recognized copyright. The author/s are legally responsible for not infringing the copyright derived from the misuse of their sources.

There are no commitments or financial obligations with state or private organizations that may affect the content, results or conclusions of this publication.

In the case of a research article derived from a very long investigation, and given the limitations inherent in a research paper , the results can be published in a series of articles as parts 1, 2, and 3.

Following the recommendations of APEI Reposrt on publication in scientific journals (Baiget and Torres -Salinas, 2013) which cites the work of Bebeau and Davis (1996), it is objectionable for authors to:

- Cite sources without being consulted

- Misinterpret previous works consulted

- Ignore data that contradicts or disagrees with the conclusions of the article

- Release scientific results prematurely, before peer review

- Keep research findings secret

- Hide data and methods which would permit the review of the experiments employed or the reworking of interpretive theories

- Not save for viewing the raw data of the field research

- Accredit false or untested authorship

 All the aforementioned is required in a reliable manner by the editor of the journal and stands as a commitment of mandatory compliance by the authors, so that the fact of applying with a work for publication means accepting these terms. Failure to do so is tantamount to waiving the evaluation of the article and means that it cannot be published again in the journal within 4 calendar years of the submission.

Editors:

On the part of the publisher, in this case the Sociedad Española de Estudios de la Comunicación Iberoamericana, (SEECI) ethical commitment lies in:

- Not publishing work not approved by peer review designated for that purpose to maintain the required criteria of quality in prestigious scientific journals. So the author will always know that the act of publishing is a clear support for his research.

- Avoiding enhanced self-citations (citations of articles from the journal) nor directly or indirectly manipulate (by pressuring the authors) to cite work of interest to the journal in order to improve its position in reference impact indexes.

- To maintain free access to the network of published work and to inform the author of the status of the evaluation from the time of receiving the proposal until final acceptance or rejection, either with or without modifications.

Reviewers:

The evaluation system is based on arbitration of an article by two blind peer reviewers. In case of disagreement between these two initial reviewers, a third will be assigned. To ensure anonymity, if authorship is accidentally discovered, either because of the subject matter or the author's way of writing, the reviewer must renounce the evaluation only if he is prejudiced about this author. Knowing who submitted the article does not imply that the reader personally knows the author or has a positive or negative predisposition towards him or her. That is to say, conflicts of interest will be avoided.

Also reviews should be made within a maximum of 60 days from the submission of the work. If there is absolute disagreement between the two reviewers, a third opinion will be requested and the possibility of the tiebreaker option ' publishable with improvements ’; the new term for the reassessment of such improvements shall be 15 days from their submission by the author.

The reviewers undertake not to publicly disclose that they are carrying out a review to avoid conflicts of interest.

Good Conduct Committee of the journal:

Formed by five members of the Scientific Committee and renewed every four years (since 2010), the committee will ensure agreement between authors and reviewers if discrepancies arise, as commissioned by the Editor.

The authors can refer to the editor by e-mail to this address: revista@seeci.net. They will be answered within one month of receiving the mail.

When irregularities occur or there are doubts about a proposal, once these irregularities are detected, in order to clarify the situation, an official code of ethics will be applied which corresponds to the following flow chart taken as an international reference, among other existing codes, and created by the British agency COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), available on its website: www.publicationethics.org

Their decisions are final.